"Let me tell you then that it could only be one person. It never was but one person. It never could have been but one person. It is you." Then he put his hand well on his heart.
"Me!" said Miss Boncassen, choosing to be ungrammatical in order that he might be more absurd.
"Of course it is you. Do you think that I should have brought you all the way up here to tell you that I was in love with anybody else?"
"I thought I was brought to see Mrs. de Somebody, and the view."
"Not at all," said Dolly emphatically.
"Then you have deceived me."
"I will never deceive you. Only say that you will love me, and I will be as true to you as the North Pole."
"Is that true to me?"
"You know what I mean."
"But if I don't love you?"